Then Baker scored a mind-bogglingly unprecedented amount of facetime with Drake for a pre-and-post-Coachella profile for Four Pins. This is the best adventure-profile since John Jeremiah Sullivan bushwhacked through Jamaica to sit before the prophet Bunny Wailer for GQ. Or since Gay Talese hung out with a snuffly Sinatra for Esquire back in 1966.

If your jerkoff attention span didn't listen, here are a few previews to get it to shut up and fall in line: At a party at Drake's palace, Baker hears that “If Kanye wasn’t in Armenia, he’d be here right now. He comes by all the time. He just bought a house, like, five houses down from me.” Also: There's a bigger-than-the-Madonna-makeout surprise coming at Drake's Part 2 Coachella set this weekend.

And from the Wildest Dreams Department, re: Drake's mysterious upcoming fourth album, Views from the 6:

"He only has two songs finished that he likes. One is a collaboration with Beyoncé that he recorded a while ago. The other is a song that he expects to inspire a paradigm shift. His days of releasing lay-up bangers that everyone loves right away are over. For now."

So go read the piece. You'll also hear: what it's like to interview Drake at his house while Drake bangs on the speakers (he does rap along, but he also ignores the tracks) till 5AM; what it's like to compare mom-notes with Drake; what it's like to text back and forth with Drake over and over; what it's like to watch Drake call his Coachella headlining set a dud.

Fine, one more treat, from Baker's VIP Coachella walkabout. But then you HAVE TO GO READ IT:

"I pass a woman in an ankle-length, powder blue coat. She's wearing sunglasses, smoking a blunt and her specter is intoxicating. I perform a very thirsty 180-degree turn when I realize that it's Rihanna. I walk up and tap her from behind: 'Yo, you're a goddess.' She assesses my general desperateness with one glance, silently ashes her blunt on the palm tree between us, turns back around and walks off without saying a word."

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